TY - JOUR
AU1 - Bond, Kenneth
AU2 - Ospina, Maria B.
AU3 - Hooton, Nicola
AU4 - Bialy, Liza
AU5 - Dryden, Donna M.
AU6 - Buscemi, Nina
AU7 - Shannahoff-Khalsa, David
AU8 - Dusek, Jeffrey
AU9 - Carlson, Linda E.
AB - The authors used a 5-round Delphi study with a panel of 7 experts in meditation research to achieve agreement on a set of criteria for a working definition of “meditation” for use in a comprehensive systematic review of the therapeutic use of meditation. Participants agreed that essential to a meditation practice is its use of (a) a defined technique, (b) logic relaxation, and (c) a self-induced state. Participants also agreed that a meditation practice may (d) involve a state of psychophysical relaxation somewhere in the process; (e) use a self-focus skill or anchor; (f) involve an altered state/mode of consciousness, mystic experience, enlightenment or suspension of logical thought processes; (g) be embedded in a religious/spiritual/philosophical context; or (h) involve an experience of mental silence. The results of this study provide insight into the challenges faced by researchers who want to demarcate meditative practices from nonmeditative practices, and they describe an approach to this problem that may prove useful for researchers trying to operationalize meditation in the context of comparative research.
TI - Defining a Complex Intervention: The Development of Demarcation Criteria for “Meditation”
JF - Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
DO - 10.1037/a0015736
DA - 2009-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/defining-a-complex-intervention-the-development-of-demarcation-C0HhCNtoa0
SP - 129
EP - 137
VL - 1
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -